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I disagree. I never saw an ad for gmail. The initial exclusivity was a gimmick, but it was dropped pretty quickly. As I recall any user could invite 10 people, including their own …

Hotmail and Yahoo mail were the primary contenders at the time. Both featured banner ads at the top. Because CSS and HTML were in their infancy, the height was generally fixed, and…

Not leaving Twitter, just not reading or posting and using alternative platforms. Not to play word police, but I think that's what people meant when they said 'leaving'. But if you…

> of which the PI even calls for reproducibility You mean like every study I've ever read? I can't recall the last time the conclusion didn't say something like, "In our study X ap…

If the state law and city law conflict, shouldn't state law take precedence? I'm actually not too upset about what the sheriff did. How many people do you think would do differentl…

Only on HN would you find people seriously arguing that focusing on product development is a good reason to remove analytics from a site. I've worked almost exclusively at companie…

Long story short, Google is using its search dominance to provide unfair advantage to other Google and Alphabet products. This is primarily done through features or "snippets" comp…

I think you're confusing internet marketing with the people who talk about internet marketing. Marketing done right is basically the 'what people want' in 'build things people want…

I know this is a bit cheeky, but HN sometimes has this comically simplistic view of other professions. It's as bad as the older C_Os who refer to all of dev and IT as "computer peo…

It speaks to a poor understand of kids, schools, and reality. I think we often underestimate kids and their intellectual capacity, but this is just ridiculous. I started outlining …

There's a big button to switch. https://championtraveler.com/travel-weather-map/travel-weath...

I'm not sure many people would be interested, but I'd have no problem doing a write up with the relevant source. I'll try to get to it next week after fixing all these bugs people …

No, sadly. I had to use a scraper. I think that's part of the reason the tourist volume data was sub-par, so I really need to find a better data source.

Very helpful, thank you. I will look into these.

Ooops... looks like the scale on my graph somehow got thrown off. Thanks for the find! I've fixed Cuba manually but will go back through looking for the source of this problem.

Yeah, you've uncovered one where the average month in Google was not reported. Generally that means few people searching. In a few cases, sadly, that may be because the hotels are …

That's great! May I ask where you're getting your data?

The search needs some work :) Sadly it is not popularity-based at all.

Hmm, sorry about that. I'll look into that, but for now the nearby cities of Amagasaki and Sakai are probably very similar. https://championtraveler.com/dates/best-time-to-visit-am…

Thanks! Most places actually give far more specific date ranges, but San Diego is so temperate just listing the months made more sense. "Powder" I guess is not the word I should be…

> what are your factors for deciding the best time to visit? I used almost exclusively weather data. My scoring process is linked to near the date ranges I provide, so hopefully th…

> It's says the daily highs in the summer are low 60s Temperature numbers show the average for the week. E.g. the "high" on the dot is not the highest average day, but the average …

Thank you! I am very glad others find the algorithm finding the "best times" to be accurate as well. This was definitely the hardest problem to solve as some places have two season…

Thanks! I agree on the search functionality. Right now this is just a WordPress search, but it would probably be wise to use Google's location API to help find the right place or t…

I wanted to build a tool to help people decide when and where to travel . As I started building, I realized that "when" and "where" need separate treatment to be most useful. The m…